Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
More Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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